Friday, 23 September 2016

First Recruits Arrived & Unpacked

The Magister Militum delivery was on the doormat when I got home yesterday, and I managed to find time to unpack and clean the figures. This first pic shows the Timoni packs:

While this one has the Pumbaanish:

Once out of the packs the major surprise for me was the size of the Timoni Conqueror compared to their other AFVs. I knew it would be bigger, but quite how much bigger it is than the Saracen, I had cenrtainly not expected! Also, the British infantry pack has some weapon stands, so I'll make one infantry section in each Timoni platoon a heavy weapons section. Here is the Timoni equipment unpacked:

My only surprise with the Pumbaanish models is the infantry; the plan I outlined in my last post about using some modern WP infantry won't work - they're too different (for me), so I'll be getting at least one more pack of infantry. The unpacked Pumbaanish stuff: